On the lighter side...

["Sam Bahour" <sbahour@palnet.com>]

I suggest PITA think to organize some physical activity events this summer 
before some of us fall off our chairs...;-)

Real story:

Worker Dead at Desk for Five Days  

Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed that 
one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for five days before 
anyone asked if he was feeling okay. George Turklebaum, 51, who had been 
employed as a proof-reader at a New York firm for 30 years, had a heart 
attack in the open-plan office he shared with 23 other workers. He quietly 
passed away on Monday, January 1 , 2001, but nobody noticed until 
Saturday morning when an office cleaner asked why he was still working 
during the weekend. His boss said: "George was always the first guy in each 
morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was 
in the same position all that time and didn't say anything. He was always 
absorbed in his work and kept much to himself." A post mortem examination 
revealed that he had been dead for five days after suffering a coronary. 
Ironically, George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when 
he died. You may want to give your co-workers a nudge occasionally. And 
the moral of the story might be: Don't work too hard. Nobody notices anyway!

Source: Birmingham Sunday Mercury (7th Jan 2001)